David Brower Center

The David Brower Center  is a real estate development and building in Oakland, CA built with state of the art environmental technologies to house primarily non-profit organizations. It was founded by philanthropist Peter Buckley and is named after legendary environmental activist David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth.


 * Shelly Rae Comer, Office Manager/ Executive Assistant
 * Gwen Loeb, Development Director
 * Amy Tobin, Executive Director

Contact

 * David Brower Center


 * 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704


 * Tel: 510.809.0900


 * Web: http://www.browercenter.org

Board of Directors

 * Excerpted from the website:


 * Zenobia Barlow - Executive Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy
 * Adam Berman
 * Kenneth Brower - Author, oldest son of David R. Brower
 * Peter K. Buckley (Chair) - Co-Founder of the Center for Ecoliteracy. Formerly CEO of Esprit-Europe and Esprit-International.
 * Chris Desser, attorney
 * Juliet Ellis - Executive Director of Urban Habitat, formerly the Associate Program Officer for Neighborhood and Community Development at The San Francisco Foundation.
 * John Flores, Treasurer
 * Randall Hayes - Senior Strategist at International Forum on Globalization and President and founder of Rainforest Action Network. Former Director of Sustainability, City of Oakland.
 * John A. Knox (Treasurer) - Co-Executive Director of Earth Island Institute
 * David W. Orr - Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
 * David Phillips - Co-Executive Director of Earth Island Institute
 * Nina Simons - Co-Executive Director of Bioneers and the Collective Heritage Institute
 * Nancy Skinner (Secretary) - Former Berkeley City Council member recently elected to the East Bay Regional Park District. Founder of ICLEI’s Cities for Climate Protection and served as US Director of The Climate Group.

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